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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this...
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
D. H. LAWRENCE The proper study of mankind is woman.
HENRY ADAMS The proper study of mankind is books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The proper study of Mankind is Everything.
MARGARET ATWOOD “What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do...
LAO TZU I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-...
WAYNE DYER The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
HERBERT SIMON Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
PROVERB When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts. -Lao Tzu.
LAO TZU Oh! A mystery is it?' I cried, rubbing my hands. 'This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Too much thinking causes confusion and anxiety
better to stick with the simplicity of Tao
LAO TZU Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling...
LAO TZU When you are always ready to embrace the last option-death; then all other options chase you, thus s...
DR HITESH C SHETH Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing...
BIBLE What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named L...
WAYNE DYER "I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!" "Not of the importance you ...
JOHN GAY A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, wo...
LAO TZU For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.
ROBERT LLOYD The goal is, to conquer an enemy without fighting, win a debate without arguing, solve a problem wit...
DR HITESH C SHETH Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowle...
DANIEL D. PALMER Lao Tzu once said, 'Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.'

A single see...
JENNIFER SODINI Study of the scriptures is not the same as the study of religion and God. So far, we don't yet have ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it ...
LAO TZU Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream.
JOHN THOMAS "SPIDER" SALLEY The ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorize...
ORSON PRATT No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Take time for the clearance of the mind, preparing for adherence to perseverance for the journey of ...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER A man becomes a scholar by the help of self-study and proper analysis of whatever he has studied.
RIG VEDA Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before other...
LAO TZU Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE Let a man live with God, not afraid to talk with him. Let him study God's plans and methods, as ...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on ...
ALEXANDER POPE No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher
HENRY WARD BEECHER One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Compassion is the essence of Jesus' teaching, and indeed of the teaching of all great spiritual figu...
MATTHEW FOX Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
DENIS BROGAN Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. ...
LAO-TZU (600 B.C.) A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.
KIM PANTI Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
CONFUCIUS The death of any man will not remove God's throne.
OLAWALE DANIEL Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is t...
ECCLESIASTES In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occa...
HENRY WARD BEECHER To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intent...
SUZY KASSEM No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Bud...
HENRY MILLER The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se...
JOHANN MOST They did not study an optical scan system, which most places in the country use, which have been use...
BOB FERRARO When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some t...
LAO TZU This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and par...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Acquaint thyself with God.
A.W. TOZER One has to know the size of one's stomach.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progres...
ALEISTER CROWLEY To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do ...
JOHN GRAY I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divine...
JOYCE KILMER The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don...
MAXINE KUMIN Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
THOMAS TUSSER Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin'...
ROBERT BURNS Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself....
ZHUANGZI The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but...
PIERRE CHARRON God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
THOMAS KEMPIS A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
THOMAS A KEMPIS The man who does not know God is a poor and miserable person
SUNDAY ADELAJA Know thyself.
THALES Know thyself.
SOCRATES Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgi...
CONFUCIUS The true science and study of man is man.
PIERRE CHARRON Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Anything a man says in his field of study should not be amazing_ if he doesn't know, who will?
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
EURIPIDES If a proper study were done, the results in, given proper consideration and then sites chosen, I'd s...
DAN KENNEDY To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can&#...
JOHN GRAY These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: / But if I tarry long, that thou m...
BIBLE 'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say '...
MENANDER Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.
RALPH BLUM Use of No Use is Great Use. (Chuang Tzu)
SUNG YEE POON You must seek to know thyself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man. - John Gay,
JOHN GAY They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ...
FRANCIS BACON SR. No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself...
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LAO TZU He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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LAO TZU Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
LAO TZU He who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
LAO TZU Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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LAO-TZU By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try...
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you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know wh...
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and easy to put into practice.
Yet your intellect wil...
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Hope is as hollow as fear.
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eloquent words aren't true.
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count less
than the silent balance
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all things are at peace.
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other things become ugly.
When people see some t...
LAO TZU He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu
LAO TZU Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
LAO TZU The further one goes, the less one knows.
LAO TZU Love

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LAO TZU Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.
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LAO TZU Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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knowing yourself is true wisdom.
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LAO TZU For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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LAO TZU He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
LAO TZU He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
LAO TZU For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
LAO TZU Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
LAO TZU If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
LAO TZU When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
LAO TZU Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
LAO TZU The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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LAO TZU Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
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